Snow guard



G. B. GEISER SNOW GUARD Filed April 24, 1924 #wewro Garje fi WIT/V565:

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Patented Sept. 16, 1924.

UNETED T E S meant GEORGE B. G-EISER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR TO BERG-ER, BROTHERS COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ACORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

SNOW GUARD.

Application filed April 24, 1924. Serial No. 708,627.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. Ginsnn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and

State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inSnow Guards, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichform a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improved construction for snow guards, suchas are applied to the roofs of buildings to hold snow and ice andprevent masses thereof from sliding off and causing injury to personspassing.

Heretofore snow guards have been made by casting, and such have provedsufficiently satisfactory, except for the fact that these are ofsubstantial weight and relatively expensive to produce.

Now it is the object of my invention to provide a snow guard soconstructed as to have a maximum of efliciency and durability, and atthe same time be capable of.

production at a relatively low cost.

More particularly my invention has for its object the production of asnow guard from a single piece of material so formed as to cause thevarious parts of the guard to cooperate in action, or as it werecooperate one with the other in resistance to the weight of snow, andice, whenever the guard may be called upon to resist, thus not onlyenabling the use of relatively light material and a minimum thereof, butsimplifying the labor of production, with resultant economy inproduction without sacrifice of efliciency and durability.

Having now indicated in a general way the nature, purpose and advantageof my invention, I will proceed to a detailed description thereof, withreference to the accompanying drawings, in which I have illustrated apreferred embodiment of my invention, and in which:

Figure l is a side elevation of a device embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the device illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on line 3-3 Fig. l.

The device as illustrated and in accordance with my invention is formedfrom a single length of material, for example strap iron.

form a base member a, adapted to rest on a row of shingles on a roof andbe partially extended beneath the next row above. The base is providedwith holes 6, b, for the passage of securing devices, as nails.

The base is mad of desirable length and at one end the material is bentback at an acute angle, as at 0, Figure 1, and extended to form a bracenumber d. At the upper limit of the brace the material is, folded underitself at right angles, as at e, and extended to form a stop number 7,which preferably is generally circular, as shown in the several figures,but which may be of any convenient shape.

Tn forming the stop member f, the ma terial is so extended as to contactwith the base number a at a point beneath the upper limit of the bracenumber, and is secured thereto by means of a rivet g, as will beunderstood from an inspection of Figures 1 and 3.

In operation, a plurality of snow guards in accordance with my inventionare secured to the roof of a building as above indicated. The stopmembers of the several guards extend in the path of any snow and icetending to slide off the roof and prevent it.

When pressure is put on the stop, such pressure is transmitted to thebase member in one direction through the brace member, and oppositelythrough th rivet connection between thestop and base member. Thus thepressure on the stop is balanced in the The material is extended in aplane to base and the stop, brace and base act, as it I were, as atruss.

Thus, by virtue of my invention there is provided a guard so formed froma single strip of material that pressure of ice and snow on the stopmember of the guard is efliciently resisted without anytendency for theguard to be turned over or the base 7 to be pulled away from the roof,without strain 011 the means securing the guard to the roof and withoutthe necessity for the use of more than a minimum of weight of materialin the construction.

Having now fully described my invention, What I claim and desire toprotect by Letters Patent is:

1. A snowguardiformedsfromca single length of material'bent to extend inone direction to form a base, at an acute angle .to the sbase tozfiorm-a brace, and at right angles to thewbraceito form a stop.

2. A snow guard formed from a single length of material bent toeXtendiinv-one direction to form a base, at an acute angle to the baseto form a brace, =and-at right angles to the brace to form a stop andmeans to secure" the stop to the base.

3. A snow guard comprising .a base member, a stop member secured to thebase,-:and a brace member extended between saidi-base member, and saidstop, all of said members being formed from a single length of material.

A. A1sno\v=,;guard formed from a single length'of material bent toextend in one direction to form a base, at an acute angle tothe base'toform Ia brace, and at right angles and in. a circle contacting with thebase to form a stop, and means to secure the stop to the base at a pointin its cireumference su bstantially opposite to the brace 011 this2lstday of April, 1924.

GEORGE B. GEI-SER.

